Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.14)[8.0.0-beta1,8.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-15123491
  • published28 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 Jan 2026
  • creditXiangwei Zhang

Introduced: 27 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22259  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.14, 8.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the dnp3 parser. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by sending specially crafted network traffic, potentially resulting in process slowdown or termination due to out-of-memory conditions.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the DNP3 parser in the configuration file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1